Assignment 7 Megan Woodrum

October 6, 1683
This date is pretty insignificant in the grand scheme of things I suppose the timing didn't make some grand ripple effect that reached all corners of the globe, it was merely the date of the establishment of Germantown, Philadelphia. This was the first German colony that was established in the United States. A group of only 33 Germans finished their journey across the Atlantic and started this colony on this day. This is only significant to me because my family immigrated to America from Germany around two hundred years later in the 1890s. Being of German decent has effected my family's culture a lot, but another big part of our culture is that we've grown as Americans over the generations. This spectacular day was the beginning of the Germans coming to America and so it marks the beginning of my heritage and my family's culture.